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If mobile ISP is snooping on your traffic and violates net neutrality by forbidding tethering and the like, just use a VPN.


Despite the downvotes this is not an unreasonable suggestion. However this would only work if the tether/hotspot traffic were tunneled opaquely down the VPN. But I suspect that isn't the case (the phone vendor owns the VPN client and associated kernel networking, and arranges to not tunnel the proxied traffic).


Use a phone where you can install an open OS that you control. It's ridiculous, if the phone is actively preventing you from setting up networking the way you need it.

You can also use some simple ssh forwarding from the phone (like SOCKS5) even if VPN is not available. ISP won't be able to differentiate that from other traffic.




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